This week I learned mice don’t like cheese. Dr. David Holmes
of the Manchester Metropolitan University, says they tend to avoid cheese. They’ll
eat it, of course, if nothing else is available, but we should probably rethink
using cheese to lure them into a trap. This is earth-shattering news. Everything
I know about mousetraps I learned from Saturday morning cartoons. And every one
of them was exclusively baited with cheese. While we’re on the subject of
misleading classic cartoons, if you could dig a hole straight down through the
earth, you wouldn’t end up in China, unless, of course, you started in
Argentina. The antipode (opposite side) of the earth from me is way, way off
the coast of South Africa. And you can’t dig that far, anyway. The deepest hole
we’ve ever made is only 7 1/2 miles. The diameter of the earth is 7,917 1/2 miles,
give or take. Six-year-old me would be so disappointed.
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